Battle Creek Parks and Recreation tackles five-year plan

10:33 PM,
Apr. 28, 2013

From left, Joe Vaugan, Samantha Johnson and Beyonca and William Johnson walk down the Linear Park trail in Pennfield.

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Jennifer Bowman

For the next five years, the Battle Creek Parks and Recreation Department hopes to do its part to help residents off the couch and on their feet.

"We need to find a better way to leverage our physical assets," said Ted Dearing, the department's business and organizational development manager, "which include (Full Blast) but also all of our parks, and our linear trail system as well, to get people physically active."

The department has dived into the 18-month process of developing its next five-year master plan, and is currently preparing to ask residents what they want out of their parks ...